Two elderly people killed in Russian strike on Myrnohrad - police

Two elderly people killed in Russian strike on Myrnohrad - police

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Two elderly people were killed and five other locals were wounded in a Russian strike on Myrnohrad, Donetsk region.

An enemy air strike with a Grom-E1 missile-bomb on Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, on the night of March 13 killed two elderly people and injured five other local residents. UNN reports this with reference to the police of Donetsk region. 

On the night of March 13, Russia struck the city with a Grom-E1 missile-bomb. A five-story building was partially destroyed, with people trapped under the rubble.  Rescuers and police immediately arrived to help people. The bodies of two residents - a 68-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman - were unblocked from the rubble

- the police said in a statement.

Five people were injured: three men aged 19, 26, 44 and two women aged 46 and 77.

Four apartment buildings and 9 civilian cars were damaged.

Earlier, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin reported that a 13-year-old girl was rescued from the rubble in Myrnohrad.